Buffy ,'Lessons'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I took a class on the Gothic in American Literature, so I'm pulling from that when I ask if "The Yellow Wallpaper" would work. There's nothing overtly supernatural, I guess, but there's that vibe.
As for ghost movies, anything but The Haunted Mansion.
Oh, crap - I'm getting senile. Polter-Cow put me in mind of this.
Algernon Blackwood?
Hey y'all--just popping in to say that even if I haven't read things in here, or don't immediately go read things people recommend, I'm still glad I read this thread--stupidly, yesterday, I checked my baggage while the book I planned to read was STILL IN IT. Argh. So I was running around the Dallas Fort Worth airport trying to find a book to read, and saw some Nevada Barr mysteries that I remembered y'all talking about, so took a chance and bought one ("Deep South"). Quite good! Am planning to look for more next time I hit the used bookstore...
For short stories, maybe an Oscar Wilde story like The Canterville Ghost? Also, Roald Dahl. Mmmm, creepy Roald Dahl. My favourite when I was younger was The Wish.
Have you considered John Bellairs' The House With a Clock in Its Walls ? One of the creepier YA supernaturals that I remember. Short, too. Apparently, the new paperback edition is illustrated by Ed Gorey. Dammit, like I don't have enough things to buy...
Interestingly enough, I went to school with his son, Frank. Never actually met the man hisself, though.
There's also the (I swear to heaven) Roger Vadim update movie of "Carmilla", called "Blood and Roses." Came out in the early sixties, filmed in italy, very atmospheric, vampires, lesbian overtones (well, hell, it's Vadim), sultry as all hell.
it would be so cool to have my students reading a book, and possibly be able to talk with the author of the book about process and ideas...It's the kind of thing that really gets them involved -- "I talk to a REAL LIVE AUTHOR!"
I missed this earlier - whenever it comes up, down the line, ping me. I used to teach Elizabethan lit on a seminar basis at high schools, and love talking to groups of kids about process, craft, and all the publishing spicy brains thing.
Have you considered John Bellairs' The House With a Clock in Its Walls ?
Ooo...that's a goodie! Love that series with Rose Rita and Lewis Barnavelt.
That would be an excellent choice, but the protagonists are, I think, elementary-school age. Love that book.
Interestingly enough, I went to school with his son, Frank.
Ooh. Tell us a story about that, please.
Fans of Nevada Barr, a traveling collection of Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell books exists, if you want to get in line for it. FYI. Jus' let me know.